Sleep Quotient Test In a national sleep quotient test conducted by the National Sleep Foundation in 1999, 83% of American adults failed. People generally gave an average of six or fewer correct answers. This is a very interesting IQ test about sleep. It is believed that this test will enrich your knowledge about sleep. Do you want to know how much you know about sleep? You can do the following sleep quotient test. Here are 12 ideas about sleep, please judge the right and wrong. (Answers are attached.) Judge whether the following questions are right or wrong 1. When sleeping, the brain is resting 2. 3.Even if there is enough sleep, boredom will still cause drowsiness. 4.Lying in bed with eyes closed does not satisfy the body’s need for sleep. 5.If snoring neither affects others nor wakes you up, it is not harmful. 6.Everyone will dream every night. 7.The older you are, the fewer hours of sleep you need. 8.Most people can’t clearly say when they feel sleepy. 9. Turning up the volume of the radio while driving helps to stay awake. 10.Sleep disorders are mainly caused by worries and psychological reasons. 11.The human body cannot be fully adapted to night work. 12.Most sleep disorders can be cured by themselves. Sleep test answers Scoring (number of questions answered correctly) 11-12 Congratulations, you have enough knowledge about sleep! 8-10 Good! Please learn more to improve your quality of life. 4-7 Please read the following answers, you will have a new understanding of sleep. 1-3 Your sleep knowledge is still lacking, but it’s not too late to mend it (start now!) 1.When you sleep, your brain is resting. (Wrong) Your body is resting, but your brain is not. The brain is still very active during sleep, preparing for the next day’s awakening and optimal condition. 2. If you sleep 1 to 2 hours less than you need to, your movement the next day will always be affected in some way. (Right) Sleep is a physiological need. Usually children need more hours of sleep than adults, and this is genetically determined for each individual. Most adults need eight hours of sleep a day to stay energetic. How can you determine your actual sleep needs? Don’t set an alarm clock before bed and sleep until you wake up. Feels relaxing, right? That’s how much sleep you need. You can make yourself sleep less, but not reduce the amount of sleep you need. 3. Even if you get enough sleep, boredom can still cause drowsiness. (Wrong) People often do not feel sleepy when they are active, but if they rest a little, or if they are bored, they will feel sleepy. In fact, the real cause of sleepiness is lack of sleep: not enough sleep for the required number of hours. Sleep-deprived adults feel sleepy when they are bored. Boredom, rather than causing sleepiness, makes sleepiness obvious. 4. Lying in bed with eyes closed does not satisfy the body’s need for sleep. (Right) Sleep is as essential to health as diet. And rest is no substitute for sleep. As mentioned above, sleep is an active physiological process that keeps you healthy and awake. If you don’t get enough sleep, then your body is accumulating “sleep debt” and will sooner or later pay for it. If you drive fatigued, you are risking your life and the lives of everyone else because a sleepy driver will fall asleep at the wheel without realizing it. Sleepiness causes drivers to be unable to concentrate and is linked to millions of car accidents every year! 5. If snoring neither affects others nor wakes you up, there is no harm in it. (Wrong) Snoring is an indication of a life-threatening sleep disorder called sleep apnea, in which patients snore loudly and frequently at night with wheezing breathing that wakes them up. This inevitably results in daytime lethargy and an increased incidence of accidents and heart disease. However, 95% of sleep apnea patients do not realize that they have a serious sleep disorder. 6. Everyone dreams every night. (Yes) Although many people do not feel that they have dreamed after waking up, but in fact, every night dreams will come as promised. Dreams are most vividly expressed during the rapid eye movement period of sleep. 7. The older you are, the fewer hours of sleep you need. (Wrong) The amount of sleep required does not change much during the adult stage. Older adults wake up more often during the night and thus sleep less, but their physiological needs do not decrease compared to their younger years. They just sleep less at night and more during the day. Although sleep difficulties are common in older adults, age is not the primary cause. If you have trouble sleeping due to poor sleep habits or health reasons, you can seek help from your physician. 8. Most people cannot say exactly when they are sleepy. (Yes) Many people don’t know when they feel sleepy. Over the years, researchers have asked thousands of people if they feel sleepy, and the answer is “no”. Some of these people even fell asleep immediately after answering! What does this mean? Many people don’t know if they’re sleepy, when they’re sleepy, and why they’re sleepy. So when driving, if you feel sleepy, even if you are only a few kilometers from your destination, don’t think you can make it through. Because if you are sleepy to a certain extent, you will fall asleep anywhere along the way. 9. Turning up the volume on the radio while driving helps keep you awake. (Wrong) If you don’t feel like you can stay awake while driving, the best expedient is to stop for a nap in a safe place or to drink a coffee-based beverage. However, a truly effective solution is a precautionary one: get enough rest before you go. Research shows that turning up the volume of the radio is as ineffective as chewing gum and opening windows. 10, Sleep disorders are mainly attributed to worries and psychological disorders. (Wrong) Stress is the first cause of insomnia (difficulty falling asleep or waking up frequently). But at the same time, it is also the cause of chronic insomnia or daytime sleepiness in only some people. Sleep disorders are caused by a variety of factors. For example, sleep apnea, triggered by airway obstruction during sleep; patients with episodic sleeping sickness, often with severe daytime sleepiness or suddenly fall into sleep, caused by genetics; and hyperactivity leg syndrome, manifested as a sense of ants walking in the legs, creepy feeling, immediately after the activity disappeared, the cause is still unknown. 11, the human body can not be fully adapted to night work. (Right) All organisms (humans, animals, plants) have their physiological cycles, or 24-hour rhythms. This affects the turnover of our sleep and wakefulness. As you travel through time zones, your physiological rhythms correspond to the changes in circadian turnover. For night shift workers, the circadian shift does not change and therefore their rhythms cannot be regulated. Whether you work night shift or not, you will feel the most sleepy at midnight and 6:00 am. Thus, no matter how long a person has been working on the night shift, it is not easy to sleep during the day. So night shift workers should try not to drink coffee in the second half of the working day, avoid contact with noise and bright light during bedtime, do not drink alcohol before going to sleep, and do not engage in strenuous activities. 12.Most sleep disorders can be cured by themselves. (Wrong) Many people who suffer from sleep disorders do not realize that it is a disease, let alone know that it is treatable. Current treatments include behavioral therapies (e.g., going to sleep at regular intervals, waking up at regular intervals, taking regular naps, or losing weight), medications, surgery, or combination therapies. Sleep disorders do not go away on their own, and allowing them to develop can have a significant negative impact, reducing quality of life and damaging relationships.